Carina Burman

Affiliated Researcher at Department of Literature and Rhetoric; Affiliated staff

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+46 18 471 61 87
E-mail:
Carina.Burman@littvet.uu.se
Visiting address:
Engelska parken, Thunbergsvägen 3 P
Postal address:
Box 632
751 26 UPPSALA
Available:
mottagn. e.ö.

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Carina Burman is an author and literary scholar, and is attached to the department of Literature in Uppsala as an associate professor (docent).

Biography

Research Interests

Swedish 18th and 19th century, the early 20th century, rhetoric, literary patrons, feminism, gender questions, guidebooks, detective fiction, theatre, film and sociology of literature.

Carina Burman is an author and literary scholar, and is attached to the department of Literature in Uppsala as an associate professor (docent). Her research interests include Swedish 18th and 19th century, the early 20th century, rhetoric, literary patrons, feminism, gender questions, guidebooks, detective fiction, theatre, film and sociology of literature.

She has published four major biographies as well as other scholarly books, but is most well-known as a novelist. Her latest books are an collection of essays on Golden Age detective fiction, Drottningar och pretendenter. Om guldålderns deckarförfattarinnor (Queens and Pretenders. Women writers in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, 2023) and a detective story set in the 1950's, Döden tar semester (Death Takes a Holiday, 2025).

Several of her novels have been translated: Min salig bror Jean Hendrich (1993) into Polish, M'oj nie-´swietej pamieci brat Jean Hendrich (Klio, Warszawa, 1999), Den tionde sånggudinnan (1996) into German Die zehnte Göttin des Gesangs (Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1998, paperback 1999) and Russian, Desjataja musa (Evropeiskij dom, 2000). The first chapter is published in an English translation in Swedish Book Review 1998:1. Cromwells huvud (1998) is available in German, Cromwells Schädel (DVA, 2000), and Babylons gator (2004) in both English (Marion Boyars, 2008) and Polish Ulice Babilonu, på Skrypt, Kolekcja Skandynawska (Warszawa, 2009).

Burman is currently writing a scholarly monograph on the women of Uppsala University 1872-2027, which is due to be published at the university's 550 year anniversary in 2027.

She is a life-member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She has also been a visiting scholar in Turku, Pisa, Wolfenbüttel, Padova and Dunedin (NZ).

Carina Burman is married to Lars Burman, professor of literature and director of Uppsala University Library. They live in Uppsala.

Work in Progress

  1. The Women of Uppsala University 1872-2027. Monograph

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Carina Burman

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